Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~Oscar Wilde

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
~W Somerset Maugham

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. There world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
~Franz Kafka

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Posted from the Grove:
This week’s Post is mostly about the party. Expect to have fun. Things we know so far:

1)  Thurs, 10.31 (Halloween). Begins 6ish PT/9ish ET, until whenever

2) Start @Wordgrove’s clubhouse (Writers in Residence: Hermit 005). The round flat center of Hermit’s mesa is a natural for Halloween displays. Anything fun or visually interesting is welcome of course, and needn’t be restricted to Halloween themes. A few are already lined up. This is a chance to bring out one of those pazs you never use and let others have fun with it. All are welcome with a paz to show. Please invite friends and any clubs you belong to who might be interested. Copy/paste this for easy instructions

Anyone with a house, or a paz-in-place that shouldn’t be moved is encouraged to drop a Scroll with a link or directions to their place. This editor would love to see what else is out there, and will be making rounds. Please drop your linked Scrolls outside Writers in Residence near the clubhouse stairs

ReenRen’s Cannery Club house (The Cannery) will be open all night for drinks and chat. Nutter houses on Wordgrove’s pier will be decorated and open for viewing

3) In order to keep suspense and intrigue at maximum levels, and to make the role of costumes twice again as fun, everyone is being asked to turn off their Nametags for this Halloween night. Important: Do NOT type into chat bubbles if you wish to cloak your identity and feed the mystery. Your name appears there. DO restrict your chatting to IMs, where your name and avie are at a remove

To turn off/on your Nametag function, go to:
There > Customize > World > Nametags > Show none

It takes just a second and it’ll be waaay more fun!

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Prewritten for Thurs (10.24) 6 pm PT/9 ET is: radio, wrangler

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table: no new drops

Platform Stairwell:

~Greenie: Haiku Moon
The round moon bowl, starlight’s reflecting pool, fills and shimmers with dreams

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Prewritten: libertine, crucible

~GreyMane: untitled  (quoted in full)

She was a lifelong libertine, gathering regret
She kept them in her crucible but hasn’t burned them yet.

She always gets reflective in the middle of the night,
but can’t reach her objective when there’s not a match in sight.

~Piffin: haiku
Casual libertine’s comfort zone in the hot stew of life

~BarTalk: the apprentice

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Impromptu: medicine, lizard

~Piffin: Medicine Hat
A blizzard of images and poses, trying on styles of life that fit the poet that please the muse

~GreyMane: untitled
Rummage the mage’s cabinet for the recipes that gag, mix the rank and foul, then sweeten with eye of newt; hold your nose as down it goes, it reeks of socks and week-old sex as tender as leather boots

~Stejovis: Something Out of Place
A gluttony for fruit of the senses, the fresh-squeezed juice and honey of it; of worker bees and the ecstasies of indulgence *urp* s’cuse me … leads to indigestion

Also: haiku (qif)
Leaping leaf hoppers
cavort by a sickly skink
lizard medicine

~Jessalee: untitled
Delirium tremens in extremity, when the poison becomes the medicine; DTs med delivered IV, and there’s vodka in the tube

~BarTalk: haiku

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Writers in Residence: Soon, a tour

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